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A B.C. provincial court has found the City of Vancouver failed to prove a business was selling products containing psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms. Source

Anita Mui’s body was found earlier this month after she went missing under ‘suspicious circumstances,’ police say. Zhixiong Marko Hu is now wanted for first-degree murder in connection with her disappearance and death, police said Wednesday. Source

The NDP and a nurses union are raising the alarm again about full emergency rooms and wait times for patients in Saskatoon hospitals. The health authority says it hears those concerns and has an on-going plan to address them. Source

MacLean’s Pond in Vernon River, P.E.I., is getting rehabilitation work done to help make it a more hospitable place for fish and wildlife. CBC reporter Sheehan Desjardins stopped by to chat with some of the people involved and see all the work being done. Source

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) says children who received the oral polio vaccine since April 2016, likely from outside Canada, no longer meet provincial vaccine requirements for school and daycare.  Source

Potlotek’s Isaiah Bernard is only the third Mi’kmaq and second Nova Scotian to head up the national Indigenous youth organization. Source

The government of the Northwest Territories is holding a press conference on the release of its first of two independent investigations into its response to last year’s wildfires. You can watch it live here at 12 p.m. MT. Source

The transit union that represents Metrobus mechanics is voicing concerns about the transportation commission’s ability to return to a full fall schedule given a shortage of a maintenance staff. Source

Watch live coverage of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games opening ceremony, featuring a parade of around 4,400 athletes from 182 delegations. Source

The Liberal Party of Canada is facing a revolt by ministerial staffers, mostly of Arab and Muslim origin, over the Trudeau government’s handling of the war in Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict generally. Source